impress

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 ĭmprĕsʹ

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of impressing.
  2. An impression; an impressed image or copy of something.
    — This weak impress of love is as a figure / Trenched in ice.
  3. A stamp or seal used to make an impression.
  4. An impression on the mind, imagination etc.
    — Such admonitions, in the English of the Authorized Version, left an indelible impress on imaginations nurtured on the Bible […]
  5. Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.
    — we have God surveying the works of the creation, and leaving this general impress or character upon them
  6. A heraldic device; an impresa.
    — It commonly occurred that Knights who , on entering the Lists , wished to conceal their identity , would assume a Device with an allusive Motto , which was designated an IMPRESS
  7. The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed.
    — Why such impress of shipwrights?
动词 v.
  1. To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably. transitive
    — You impressed me with your command of Urdu.
  2. To make an impression, to be impressive. intransitive
    — Henderson impressed in his first game as captain.
  3. To produce a vivid impression of (something). transitive
    — That first view of the Eiger impressed itself on my mind.
  4. To mark or stamp (something) using pressure. transitive
    — We impressed our footprints in the wet cement.
  5. To produce (a mark, stamp, image, etc.); to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).
  6. To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate. figuratively
    — impress the motives and methods of persuasion upon our own hearts, till we feel the force and power of them.
  7. To compel (someone) to serve in a military force. transitive
    — The press gang used to impress people into the Navy.
  8. To seize or confiscate (property) by force. transitive
    — The liner was impressed as a troop carrier.

词形变化

impresses present,singular,third-person impressing participle,present impressed participle,past impressed past impresses plural

词汇关系

近义词
make an impression on confiscate impound seize sequester
衍生词
impressable impressed impresser impressible impression impressive impressively impressment impresstaurant overimpress reimpress underimpress unimpress

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Latin in-
Proto-Indo-European *per-?
Proto-Indo-European *pres-der.
Proto-Italic *pres-
Latin premō
Latin imprimō
Latin impressusder.
Middle English impressen
English impress
From Middle English impressen, from Latin impressus, perfect passive participle of imprimere (“to press into or upon, stick, stamp, or dig into”), from in (“in, upon”) + premere (“to press”).
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Latin in-
Proto-Indo-European *per-?
Proto-Indo-European *pres-der.
Proto-Italic *pres-
Latin premō
Latin imprimō
Latin impressusder.
Middle English impressen
English impress
From Middle English impressen, from Latin impressus, perfect passive participle of imprimere (“to press into or upon, stick, stamp, or dig into”), from in (“in, upon”) + premere (“to press”).
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